Publications by authors named "Kelvin Kau Kiat Goh"

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  • - Treatment of multidrug resistant infections is tough because there aren't many effective antibiotics available, prompting the use of specialized strategies by pharmacists.
  • - A two-part approach is used: in vitro antibiotic combination testing and therapeutic drug monitoring to tailor treatment, similar to precision medicine.
  • - This method showed promising results in two patients with hard-to-treat Acinetobacter baumannii infections, using higher-than-recommended doses without causing any negative side effects.
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Fosfomycin-based combination therapy has emerged as an attractive option in our armamentarium due to its synergistic activity against carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacteria (CRGNB). The ability to simultaneously measure fosfomycin and other antibiotic drug levels will support in vitro and clinical investigations to develop rational antibiotic combination dosing regimens against CRGNB infections. We developed an analytical assay to measure fosfomycin with nine important antibiotics in human plasma and cation-adjusted Mueller-Hinton II broth (CAMHB).

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An efficient route leading to exclusively (1E,3E)-TMS dienes is described. Radical xanthate addition of keto-xanthates to vinyltrimethylsilane followed by one-pot Chugaev elimination/cyclization and in situ oxidation with m-CPBA afforded the corresponding TMS 2-sulfolenes. Isomerization to 3-sulfolenes by the action of DBU with the extrusion of sulfur dioxide in refluxing toluene gave the titled (1E,3E)-TMS dienes.

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A free-radical approach for the synthesis of functionalized 1,5-diketones has been accomplished through an effective combination play between alkenylacylphosphonates and keto-xanthates as radical surrogates of enolates and enones, respectively.

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An efficient method for the synthesis of ester-containing indium homoenolate via a direct insertion of indium into β-halo ester in the presence of CuI/LiCl was described. The synthetic utility of the indium homoenolate was demonstrated by palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling with aryl halides in DMA with wide functional group compatibility.

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An efficient palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of indium homoenolate with aryl halide is described. The reactions proceeded efficiently in DMA at 100 °C to afford the desired products of β-aryl ketones in moderate to good yields. Various important functional groups including COR, COOR, CHO, CN, OH, and NO(2) can be well tolerated in the protocol.

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The first water-tolerant, ketone-type indium homoenolate was synthesized via the oxidative addition of In/InCl(3) to enones. The reaction proceeds exclusively in aqueous media. Both indium and indium(III) chloride are necessary for the smooth conversion of the reaction.

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